LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI
CORSO DI LINGUA INGLESE 2 30 ORE DI LEZIONE FRONTALE
DOCENTE
DOTT.SSA LUISELLA LEONZINI
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TIPOLOGIA ESAME
PROVA ORALE / ORAL INTERVIEW
FINALITA (CEF, B1)
SPOKEN PRODUCTION, SPOKEN INTERACTION
ABILITA (CEF)
READING, SPOKEN PRODUCTION, SPOKE INTERACTION
LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI
ANNO ACCADEMICO 2007-2008
THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEWS
TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS IN THE
LANGUAGE OF NEWSPAPERS: TWO BRITISH QUALITY PAPERS, THE
GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO TEXT ANALYSIS
LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI
THE PROGRAMME
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INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS
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THE QUALITY AND THE POPULAR PRESS: THE GUARDIAN AND
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AS QUALITY PAPERS
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HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPERS
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A SELECTION OF ARTICLES: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
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COMPARING ARTICLES WITH SAME TOPICS
LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL LINGUISITICS
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N. FAIRCLOUGH, Analysing discourse: textual analysis for
social research, Routledge, London, 2003
K. BALLARD, The Frameworks of English, Palgrave,
Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2001 (solo cap. 2, 3, 4)
LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI
PART TWO
THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH :
HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER
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WWW.GUARDIAN.CO.UK
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WWW. TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI
PART THREE
THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEWS : TEXT ANALYSIS
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A. BELL, The Language of News Media, Blackwell,
Oxford, 1991 (solo cap 9)
D. REAH, The Language of Newspapers, Routledge,
London, 2000 (solo cap 2, 3, 6)
G. Kress & T. Van Leeuwen, Reading Images. The
Grammar of Visual Design, Routledge, London, 1996
(solo cap. 2 e 3)
J. MORLEY, Truth to tell, Clueb, Bologna, 1998
THE LANGUAGE AND ITS FUNCTIONS
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WHAT IS LANGUAGE ?
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LANGUAGE AS A RESOURCE FOR EXPERIENCING ANY SOCIAL
ACT OF SPEECH/ DISCOURSE
LANGUAGE IN A SOCIAL – SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
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EXPERIMENTAL
INTERPERSONAL
LOGICAL
TEXTUAL
LINGUISITICS AS A TOOL TO DEAL WITH
LANGUAGE
A LINGUISITC APPROACH TO TEXT ANALYSIS
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TEXT AS A SEMANTIC UNIT: AN ACT OF FUNCTIONAL
LANGUAGE
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TEXT AS A PROCESS AND AS A PRODUCT
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THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE TEXT AND ITS CONTEXT OF
SITUATION
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THE CONTEXT OF SITUATION AND ITS FEATURES
THE STRUCTURE AND THE TEXTURE OF A TEXT
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STRUCTURE: HOW A TEXT IS LOGICALLY ORGANIZED
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TEXTURE: HOW THE ELEMENTS IN A TEXT ARE
LINGUISTICALLY AND SEMANTICALLY LINKED
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COHERENCE AND COHESION IN A TEXT
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THE CONCEPT OF COHESION
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THE CONCEPT OF COHESION: COHESIVE TIES AND COHESIVE
DEVICES
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COHESIVE DEVICES: ENDOPHORIC AND EXOPHORIC
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ENDOPHORIC COHESIVE DEVICES : ANAPHORIC AND
CATAPHORIC
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COHESIVE DEVICES: GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL
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COHESION AND COHESIVE CHAINS: IDENTITY AND SIMILARITY
CHAINS
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A TEXT AS A GROUP OF CLAUSES
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WHAT A CLAUSE/SENTENCE/PHRASE IS
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CLAUSE AS A MESSAGE AND AS AN EXCHANGE
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BELOW THE CLAUSE : NOMINAL AND VERBAL GROUPS
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ABOVE THE CLAUSE : CLAUSES RELATION
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TYPES OF INTERDEPENDENCY : PARATAXIS AND HYPOTAXIS
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LOGICO-SEMANTIC CLAUSES RELATION : ELABORATION,
EXTENSION AND ENHANCEMENT
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THE LANGUAGE OF JOURNALISM
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THE RULES OF COMMUNICATION:
RELEVANCE AND MANNER
QUALITY,
QUANTITY,
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QUALITY AND POPULAR PAPERS
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THE IMPORTANCE OF HEADLINES IN COMMUNICATING NEWS
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THE HEADLINES SHOULD: ATTRACT THE READER’S ATTENTION,
SUMMARIZE THE CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE, INDICATE THE
WRITER’S ATTITUDE, INDICATE THE REGISTER OF THE ARTICLE,
INDICATE THE FOCUS OF THE ARTICLE
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HOW JOURNALISTS DEVELOP THE NEWS: THE INVERTED
PYRAMID CONCEPT
THE HISTORY AND THE ARTICLES OF THE PAPERS
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THE PAPERS’ HISTORY.
WHO, WHEN, WHY, HOW? AN OVERIVIEW OF THE PAPER WHICH HAS
DEVELOPED AND ACQUIRED A WORLDWIDE REPUTATION AMONG BOTH
THE BUSINESS AND CULTURED READING PUBLIC.
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WHAT ARE ITS ARTICLES ABOUT? ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY,
LANGUAGE, ADVERTISING, CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE ETC.
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THE LEADING ARTICLES: ARTICLES OF COMMENT. THE LEADING
ARTICLES
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THE REPORTS: REPORTING FACTS
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THE ARTICLE STRUCTURE: TOPIC, PRE-HEADLINE, HEADLINE, SUBHEADLINE AND ARTICLE.
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COHERENCE AND COHESION IN THE ARTICLES
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COHESIVE DEVICES AND CHAINS IN THE ARTICLES
DEVIANCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PAPERS
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COLOURFULNESS : THE USE OF FIGURES OF SPEECH BOTH IN
THE HEADLINES AND IN THE ARTICLES
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SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY: HIGH LEXICAL DENSITY, GRAMMATICAL
INTRICACY
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TECHNICAL WORDS/EXPRESSIONS: LANGUAGE FOR A SPECIFIC
PURPOSE RESTRICTED TO MEMBERS OF A DISCOURSE
COMMUNITY
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JOKEY STYLE: THE HEADLINES ARE REMARKABLE INDICATORS
OF LINGUISITC STYLE: METAPHORS AND PUNS
DEVIANCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PAPERS
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NOMINALIZATION AND/OR VERBALIZATION IN THE HEADLINES
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NOMINALIZING PROCESSES, ACTIONS: A MARK OF DEVIANCE
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ALTERNATING FORMAL, TECHNICAL AND INFORMAL
EXPRESSIONS / WORDS: CAPTIVATING THE READERS’
ATTENTION
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THE USE OF VERBS: MODAL VERBS OF NECESSITY AND
POSSIBILITY, INFINITIVES, PREDICTIVE AND SUASIVE VERBS,
THE CONDITIONAL AND HYPOTAXIS, SPLIT AUXILIARIES VERBS
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THE USE OF TENSES: THE PRESENT AND THE PRESENT
CONTINUOUS, THE PAST SIMPLE AND THE PRESENT PERFECT,
THE -ING FORMS, THE INFINITIVE, THE CONDITIONAL